For the past couple weeks, we've been trying to sell our extra car. Adam got an email the other day asking if the car was still available, and he said yes. Then he got this response:
"I so much appreciate your response to my earlier mail.Am Ok with the price for the car i wish to let you know that I'm satisfied with the condition.Like I said there's no doubt I'm going to purchase it if you are ready to sale it for me.Therefore I want you to consider it sold by withdrawing the advert.Note that you will not be responsible for shipping and handling.My pick up agent will come to your location for pick up.Kindly provide me your name and full address,so i can forward it to pick up agent to calculate the cost of pick up for me.I would like you to know that the payment will be made via PayPal because is fast and secured to send and received money online, All you have to send me now is your full address where the car we be pick-up and your PayPal email address so that i can proceed with the payment immediately.Hope to hear from you soon."
Obviously, this was a scam, but rather than just ignoring it, Adam decided to have little fun with this guy and emailed him back:
"greetingsso sorry in the delay of respones to email. i will only be able to accept cash sales thanks you much appreciate"
Well, the guy apparently wasn't quick enough to catch on to the fact that Adam suddenly was using broken English and improper spelling, and he replied again:
"Thanks for the response,i am more than happy to see you write back...I would have love to called you to discuss this issue more better but my mobile phone is playing up The Handset is kinda waterlogged and therefore unpredictable to use the only way for me to contact you for now is via pc if not because of that i would have called you earlier,I'm at the sea at the moment.i am a sailor and i really want to make this purchase.I insisted on PayPal because i don't have access to my bank account online as i don't have internet banking, but i can pay from my PayPal account as i have my bank a/c attached to it.I will need you to give me your PayPal email address so i can make the payments asap...please if you don't have PayPal account yet, it is
very easy to set up, go to WWW.PayPal.com and get it set up...after you have set it up i will only need the e-mail address you use for registration with PayPal so as to put the money through."
Well, appreciative of the man's instructions on how to use Paypal (haha), Adam responded once more:
"Greetings greafull for reply, it is cause of difficulties to use paypal account as to password is diffrent and this causes upredictable uses for using paypal via pc login. it is much of easy to signup with online bank account. you need visit bank website at WWW.(nameofbank).com their you login with information it is not hard too do. it is pleasurable to me that you are sailor but this car is vary far away from sea, it does not go well in deep water, maybe we need to find you a boat to buy.
Cheers."
Haven't heard anything back from our potential buyer, but I've gotten quite a few chuckles out of this. Adam's so funny...and so few people know it! (I'm still laughing out loud and I've read this message several times...)
Friday, February 24, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Vocal Point
Adam and I got to go to a Vocal Point concert in Salt Lake City at the Conference Center, and it was so much fun! I've been to see Vocal Point before, but this time, we were actually in the third row--and it was actually weird to be sitting close enough to the stage to know that the performers could actually make out your features if they took the time to look at you. I'm used to being in the back. It was interesting to note that VP has 4 new members, and this was their first performance with the new guys. I was a little wary, because I liked the guys who left (including a guy who used to go to church with us before we moved), but I think they did a good job.
Anyway, the concert was great--lots of good music but also so many funny moments.
The show, in case you were wondering, went as follows:
Celebration
Footloose
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Dare You to Move
The Way You Look Tonight
Trivia (This is not a song; this when two of the guys went out in the audience and picked people to answer VP trivia questions. And the first person who was chosen to answer a trivia question was a girl sitting in our row, so McKay Crockett had to climb over me and Adam to get over to her.)
Never Say Never
Elmo (Also not a song. This is when one of the guys starts to talk about girls and how they're confusing and then Elmo--or, rather Robert Seely imitating Elmo--steps up to give him some advice--like maybe he'll feel better if he sings a song. The funniest thing about this is that Robert Seely is a bass. That doesn't quite do it justice--is there a word for so, so, super low that you would never think he could get high-pitched enough to imitate Elmo? Well, anyway, he did a great Elmo imitation, and "Elmo" even volunteered to help sing the song to cheer up his buddy, adding that "When Elmo sings with the boys, Elmo likes to sing bass." He said that entire sentence in Elmo's voice, until he got to "bass" and then he got about as low as a human voice could get. I'm not doing this experience justice here, but it was SOOOOOOOOO funny.)
No, Not Much (I'd never heard of the musical this is from, Forever Plaid, but I loved the song!)
We All Need Saving
Life Is a Highway
Elvis Medley (Ah, loved it--although my favorite of the songs in the medley is "Fools Rush In" and I would have been content listening to that entire song instead of just a snippet from it).
Intermission
Game Day--this was mostly "instrumental"...except they're an a cappella group, so their instruments are their voices. But they really did instrumental songs, like "Charge." Very cool.
Higher and Higher
You Really Got Me (This is actually probably my least favorite, maybe because I don't necessarily like the song in the first place.)
12 Days--this is a funny Christmas medley, which starts, as you might guess, with the 12 Days of Christmas and branches into other songs but stays with the music/tune of the 12 Days. It's funny.
Savior, Redeemer of My Soul--Ah. Huge sigh of satisfaction. I love this particular version of this song, with the music by Rob Gardner, and I admit I was a little nervous when I saw they were letting one of the new guys sing it, but he did a phenomenal job. Beautiful.
Tanner's medley of noise--okay, that's not actually the title, but Tanner Nilsson, who is the main vocal percussionist (I think--I admit, I don't really know anything about music) did this incredible solo and you would NEVER think that all of those noises could come out of one person at the same time. It's amazing. No wonder he was chosen at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella as the best vocal percussionist in the world!
Jump, Jive an' Wail
At this point, VP left the stage, but luckily, they came back for an encore and performed:
Every Little Step
God Bless the USA
Ah. So much fun. I told Adam afterwards that I might have to turn into a Vocal Point groupie and start following them around to concert venues...as long as they're within about an hour's drive.
Anyway, the concert was great--lots of good music but also so many funny moments.
The show, in case you were wondering, went as follows:
Celebration
Footloose
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Dare You to Move
The Way You Look Tonight
Trivia (This is not a song; this when two of the guys went out in the audience and picked people to answer VP trivia questions. And the first person who was chosen to answer a trivia question was a girl sitting in our row, so McKay Crockett had to climb over me and Adam to get over to her.)
Never Say Never
Elmo (Also not a song. This is when one of the guys starts to talk about girls and how they're confusing and then Elmo--or, rather Robert Seely imitating Elmo--steps up to give him some advice--like maybe he'll feel better if he sings a song. The funniest thing about this is that Robert Seely is a bass. That doesn't quite do it justice--is there a word for so, so, super low that you would never think he could get high-pitched enough to imitate Elmo? Well, anyway, he did a great Elmo imitation, and "Elmo" even volunteered to help sing the song to cheer up his buddy, adding that "When Elmo sings with the boys, Elmo likes to sing bass." He said that entire sentence in Elmo's voice, until he got to "bass" and then he got about as low as a human voice could get. I'm not doing this experience justice here, but it was SOOOOOOOOO funny.)
No, Not Much (I'd never heard of the musical this is from, Forever Plaid, but I loved the song!)
We All Need Saving
Life Is a Highway
Elvis Medley (Ah, loved it--although my favorite of the songs in the medley is "Fools Rush In" and I would have been content listening to that entire song instead of just a snippet from it).
Intermission
Game Day--this was mostly "instrumental"...except they're an a cappella group, so their instruments are their voices. But they really did instrumental songs, like "Charge." Very cool.
Higher and Higher
You Really Got Me (This is actually probably my least favorite, maybe because I don't necessarily like the song in the first place.)
12 Days--this is a funny Christmas medley, which starts, as you might guess, with the 12 Days of Christmas and branches into other songs but stays with the music/tune of the 12 Days. It's funny.
Savior, Redeemer of My Soul--Ah. Huge sigh of satisfaction. I love this particular version of this song, with the music by Rob Gardner, and I admit I was a little nervous when I saw they were letting one of the new guys sing it, but he did a phenomenal job. Beautiful.
Tanner's medley of noise--okay, that's not actually the title, but Tanner Nilsson, who is the main vocal percussionist (I think--I admit, I don't really know anything about music) did this incredible solo and you would NEVER think that all of those noises could come out of one person at the same time. It's amazing. No wonder he was chosen at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella as the best vocal percussionist in the world!
Jump, Jive an' Wail
At this point, VP left the stage, but luckily, they came back for an encore and performed:
Every Little Step
God Bless the USA
Ah. So much fun. I told Adam afterwards that I might have to turn into a Vocal Point groupie and start following them around to concert venues...as long as they're within about an hour's drive.